Biography

Ms. Taherian has over 25 years of experience as a Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and acting Chief Executive Officer for global industrial companies, and currently serves as CFO of Carbon Upcycling Technologies. She previously served as CFO of 3Degrees and of Xpansiv, the world’s largest online exchange for voluntary carbon markets, where she helped raise over $725 million from investors including Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America. Earlier in her career she held senior finance roles at Exxon and Chevron over a 16year period and began as a consultant at Accenture. Over her career she has worked on financings of over $4.5 billion and M&A transactions of over $2.5 billion. Ms. Taherian serves as Chair of the Audit Committee of the SPAC and as a director of Heffernan Insurance, and has served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. She has been an adjunct professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management for 10 years. Ms. Taherian holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Davis and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.